WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:57:03 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg mountebank – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Mencken, H. L. -- “What I Believe,” sec. 2, Forum and Century (Sep 1930) https://wist.info/mencken-hl/36972/ https://wist.info/mencken-hl/36972/#respond Mon, 15 May 2017 15:05:22 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=36972 The principle is surely not new in the world: everyone ought to know by this time that a mountebank, thinking only of tomorrow’s cakes, is far safer with power in his hands than a prophet and martyr, his eyes fixed frantically upon the rewards beyond the grave.


H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American writer and journalist [Henry Lewis Mencken]
“What I Believe,” sec. 2, Forum and Century (Sep 1930)
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